We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 17, 2025 | Dan Fagin, Jonathan Corum

[FreedomPoster]

There are two kinds of 1st World countries. Those that have landed men on the moon, and those that use the metric system exclusively.

[servo1969]

But you know what we can’t track, right New York Times? Huh? Huh?

[JZelle]

Probably borrowing the same technology they used to find all the Jan6 people.

[Ge0ffrey]

What’s cool is visiting the national park in the state of Michoacan, Mexico where they enter.

[Ge0ffrey]

What’s cool is visiting the national park in the state of Michoacan, Mexico where they WINTER!

[sphinx]

Farmers are not enthusiastic about growing weeds.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I swear Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.

Yer damn skippy.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yep, they never seem to be going anywhere in particular.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Part of the problem is that you are not allowed to have a weed patch any more. Use to be people would mow their front lawns and part of the back but there was a line between the houses that was left to go as it would.

This was a tiny patch for the fireflies to breed and the butterflies to flutter.

Now they look out over their smooth green lawns and say, "what happened to all the bugs"?

What indeed.

[oldplayer]

Now this is the kind of interesting semi-useful government spending I can get behind. We could do lots of this stuff just from the FRAUD found in the SNAP program.

[Henry Hnyellar]

But we do not know the location of mllions of illegal aliens.

[lee martell]

The Butterflies probably wish all these busy body do gooder people would just Bug Off, stop messing with their wings.

[DennisR]

To their own demise! Give me the metric system any day.

[Carry_Okie]

Part of the problem is that you are not allowed to have a weed patch any more. Use to be people would mow their front lawns and part of the back but there was a line between the houses that was left to go as it would.

Astroturf is the answer to everything.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That is what it looks like they have done in most of the towns.

Our little piece of dirt has several weed patches. I am trying to bring in native plants as I find them. Not always easy. But we do have milk weed.

And lots of fireflies in the summer.

[Shanty Shaker]

We have had a milkweed patch for over 15 years. This year is the first year we have had Monarch caterpillars in more than 10 years. At one point, there were 14 monarchs in process. Interesting to watch. If it matters, it has been 3 years since they took the roundup ready crops out of the adjacent fields. A wealthy man bought the farm fields with the idea of farming but he is too busy to get around to taking care of them.

[tumblindice]

And using computer power equivalent to that found in a Nintendo 64, built by William “D-Fence” Fosters wearing short sleeve white shirts, skinny ties and birth control glasses, using slide rules USAUSAUSA!
Yayy White Guys!

[Fledermaus]

First, why?

Second, I think decades of people following monarchs already know.

It’s like “we can now follow the swans going to Capistrano”.

Which is legend.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Swallows.

[Fledermaus]

Birds of a feather. Actually thought I typed it that way.